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PATENTED' JAN. 12, 1904.

r. 0. MASON. DISPLAY STAND. APPLIGATIO N FILED APR. 2% 1903.

H0 MODEL.

5 a Wfoz Wilma/ow Patented January 12, 1904.

PA-TENTOFFICE- nnAncrso. MASON, or GRAND RAPinsnioniGAN, ASSIGNOR TO BISsELL GAR-PET SWEEPER COMPANY, or camp RAPIDS, rcmemv, coa- PORATION.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent Nb. 749,494, dated Januar 12', 1904i" w H M 1.; 1.11 it I vim MM lw 14V" Application filed April 24, 1903- Serial No. 154,177. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

. Be it known that I, FRANCIS C. MASON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of :Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Display-Stands, of which the i following is a specification. I

This invention relates to a new and useful display-stand for the purpose of displaying carpet-sweepers and other articles; and the invention consists in an upright standard and supporting-feet placed as hereinafter described and provided with arms or other means for supporting the articles to be displayed.

The invention further consists in the construction and combination of parts hereinafter described. y i The objects of the invention are, first, to Q ,furnish a stand that can be placed against a wall and supported on all sides excepting the wall side of the stand; second, to provide a display-stand that can be taken apart and packed or shipped. These objects I accomin the accompanying drawings, in which- I Figure 1 shows a front perspective view of I g the display-stand constructed in accordance with my invention.

:vation on a somewhat smaller plan. Figs. 3 y f and 4 show detail views of an attaching-plate used for attaching and detaching thefeet.

Figs. 5 and 6 show detail views, on an en- I larged scale, of one of the supporting-feet. Similar letters refer to similar parts through- I out the several views.

In the drawings the standard is shown by p B. This standard is preferably rectangular in cross-section and is supported by three feet, j two of the feet being shown by A A and are placed substantially in the same plane. The third foot isshown byA and is placed in a plane substantially at right angles to the plane of the feet A A. The object of this construcw tion is to allow the stand to be placed against a wall. The standard B is provided with a plate for each foot, the plate being shown by F. The plate F is provided with two key- I I shaped openings, (shown by I and G.) Each of the feet is provided with two lugs. (Shown plish by means of the mechanism illustrated.

Fig. 2 shows a side elein Figs. Sand 6 by H and H.) These lugs H are enlarged at their outer ends, and the foot is attached by passing the lugs H H through the enlarged portions (Jr Gr of the key-shaped holes and then lowering the standard so that the lugs H H are seated in the smaller parts I I of the key-shaped holes. Thus each foot can be readily attached and detached to and from the standard. The plates F are secured by bolts or other means to the lower end of the standard. The standard is provided with a plurality of supporting-arms, (shown by E.) Each arm E has a rectangular projection which engages with the socket J, the socket J being securely attached to the standard, so as to project outwardly, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. These armsE can be raised out of their sockets. Near the top of the standard are loops D, and near the bottom of the standard are sockets G. In the example of my invention shown in the drawings I have shown four of the sockets C and two of the loops D.

When my invention is used for the display of carpet-sweepers, the arms E E, &c., receive the sweepers, while the handles thereof after being separated from the same are passed through the loops D, and the lower ends of the handles rest in the sockets C.

At the top of the standard there may be placed the name of the article displayed or any other inscription that may be required.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim to have invented, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A display-stand including a standard provided with three feet, two of them being in substantially the same plane and the third extending forward at an angle to the said plane, a plurality of arms located one above the other upon the forward side of the standard for supporting articles to be displayed, sockets upon the opposite sides of the standard nearthe lower end thereof, and loops upon the opposite sides of the standard near the upper end thereof.

2. In a display-stand, the combination of a standard provided with three legs, two of which are substantially in the same plane, the third one projecting forward from the said plane at an angle thereto, a plurality of arms projecting forward from the standard and approximately in the vertical plane of said third leg, a socket upon each side of the standard below the lowermost arm, and loops upon the sides of the standards approximately in vertical line with the respective sockets.

3. In a display-stand, the combination of a vertically-disposed straight standard provided with three feet, two of which are substantially in the same plane, and the third one projecting forward from said plane at an angle thereto, a plurality of forwardly-extending arms located one above the other upon the for- FRANCIS O. MASON.

Witnesses:

EDWARD TAGGART, MARY S. TOOKER. 

